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7 Skill Sets for Nurturing Open Community

Convince & Convert

Your Open Community is your people who are bonded by what your organization represents and care enough to talk to each other (hopefully about you!) You Don’t Have to Own A Community to Build Community. You’ll need some search-engine ninjas, RSS-reader Jedi masters, and Twitter superheros. Collaboration.

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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest. Learn what other free tools might work for community building, like MyBlogLog. Ensure you offer the basics on your site, like an email alternative to an RSS subscription. Check out Twitter as a way to show a company’s personality.

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

IT departments are increasingly being asked to implement wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, video-sharing, and dozens of other varieties of collaboration software – software they may know how to code, but often have no idea how to actually use. and Government 2.0 initiatives. What other benefits do you see to getting them more involved?

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The answer is NOT always social media/community - that would be another warning sign if it was. They were very in sync and collaborative and having them there prevents a large “translation&# effort from what we learned and decided to the partners who will ultimately help them implement. Microsoft Communities. Lisa Whelan.